Scrum Master L2

Wipro•Louisville, KY

22h

About The Position

The Scrum Master facilitates a Scrum team and is accountable for removing impediments so the team can achieve sprint goals and deliverables. The role ensures Scrum is used as intended, protects the development team from external interference, supports self-management, fosters collaboration across teams, and keeps the team focused. The Scrum Master supports the Product Owner with Scrum adoption and product backlog management, facilitates planning and other Scrum ceremonies, monitors Scrum artifacts and metrics, and promotes Agile and engineering practices. The role also develops team competency and cross-skilling plans, works toward stable team velocity, and contributes to Agile communities and internal quality forums.

Requirements

Mandatory skill: Agile-Scrum.
8–10 years of experience.

Responsibilities

Help the Scrum team meet sprint objectives and commitments.
Identify, own, and help resolve team impediments; protect the team from external interference.
Help the Product Owner adopt Scrum, remain available to the team, and maintain the Product Backlog, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Facilitate estimation, backlog refinement, planning, daily standups, demos, retrospectives, and other Scrum ceremonies.
Ensure Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and acceptance criteria are available and followed.
Ensure MoSCoW priorities are followed in the Sprint Backlog.
Ensure correct implementation and adoption of Agile processes, including Scrum, XP, and Kanban.
Facilitate technical assistance and clear communication among team members.
Participate in Scrum of Scrums and highlight cross-team impediments.
Provide team-member performance feedback to the Agile Line Manager and Agile Program Leader.
Ensure Scrum artifacts are updated, keep the ALM tool updated daily, and update key Scrum metrics in Wipro’s internal tool each sprint.
Analyze Scrum metrics and take corrective action.
Create a competency improvement and cross-skilling plan at project start, review it monthly, and work to ensure at least 50% of the team is multiskilled.
Help the team attain stable velocity within 6–8 sprints, allowing for 10% variation either way.
Train the team in Agile process adoption and support engineering practices such as ATDD, TDD, CI, CD, and refactoring.
Record and own retrospective actions.
Participate in community of practice initiatives.
Provide inputs to the Line Manager for internal quality forums, including QIC, APR, QBR, and MBR.